Stentorian voice

There were several intellectuals in the Victorian era who raised their stentorian voice against the evils that had spread as a result of the Industrial Revolution. The contribution made by Ruskin deserves special mention, The ugliness of the industrial system and the selfishness of its economics repelled him. He wanted to bring about a thorough change in the production and distribution of wealth. His sharp as immoral in its acquisitiveness, materialism and exploitation pooh-poohed his contemporaries. But later they have made headway, though not always in the forms which he might have approved. “No writer in Victorian times” says Compton Rickets “did more than on in the social organism ... and to stir the individual to more serious effort in the cause of human brotherhood not in the spirit of common justice”